Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong said that “tourism+sports” was a new way to cater for the needs of the urban middle class.
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The competition was organised by the Macau Culinary Association and held at the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies.
Macao’s general unemployment rate and local residents’ jobless rate of local residents for August-October remained unchanged at 2.9% and 4.1%.
Macao’s exports and imports in the first 10 months of the year fell by 18.1% and 7.1% to MOP 8.6 billion (US$1.08 billion) and MOP 67.4 billion respectively.
The police recorded 46 extortion cases related to online naked chats in the first three quarters of this year, 42 more than the same period of last year, according to crime statistics released by the Secretariat for Security (GSS) on Thursday.
The number of meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition (MICE) events held in Macao in the third quarter and the total number of participants both increased quarter-to-quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Thursday.
The Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) announced this week that its officials, in conjunction with officials from several other government entities, have repossessed a long-undeveloped plot of land east of the entrance to the Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge on the northern coast of Taipa, which was initially slated for an “Ocean World” theme park project when its land concession was granted well over two decades ago.
Grand Lisboa’s occupancy rate could reach about 50 per cent next month, its manager, Henry Kong Fuk Leung, said on Thursday.
Until Tuesday, the second phase of the government’s consumption subsidy smartcard scheme had injected around MOP 2.9 billion to into the local market, an Economic Affairs Bureau (DSE) statement noted on Thursday.